Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology

by David G. Hartwell, Milton T. Wolf (Editor)

Overview

For years, those bringing SF into the classroom have had to improvise their course materials from anthologies and collections not designed for classwork. Now, David G. Hartwell, award-winning anthologist, and Professor Milton T. Wolf, Vice President of the Science Fiction Research Association, present a carefully selected reading anthology reflecting the SF field in all its modern diversity. Here are Golden Age writers like John W. Campbell and Jack Williamson, and here also are towering latter-day titans like Gene Wolfe and Ursula K. Le Guin, along with today's popular writers such as Greg Bear, Robert Jordan, and Vernor Vinge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312852870
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/15/1996
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	800
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.59(d)

About the Author

David G. Hartwell, called "an editor extraordinaire" by Publishers Weekly, is one of science fiction's most experienced and influential editors. As an editor with Berkley Books, Pocket Books, William Morrow, and Tor Books, he has worked with many of the field's best authors and edited many award-winning works. He is the author of Age of Wonders, a nonfiction study of the science fiction field. Among his many anthologies are the bestselling World Treasury of Science Fiction and the World Fantasy Award winner The Dark Descent. He is the holder of a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Columbia University, a winner of the Eaton Award, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award twenty-four times.

Milton T. Wolf is a noted librarian, scholar, and vice president of the Science Fiction Research Association. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Critics (Chapter One of In Search of Wonder) / Damon Knight
The Ship Who Sang / Anne McCaffrey
Blood Music / Greg Bear
Paperjack / Charles de Lint
Forever Yours, Anna / Kate Wilhelm
The Golden Age of Science Fiction Is Twelve / David G. Hartwell
Mr. Boy / James Patrick Kelly
Jamboree / Jack Williamson
The Death of Doctor Island / Gene Wolfe
Ender's Game / Orson Scott Card
What Do You Mean . . . Human? / John W. Campbell, Jr.
Bears Discover Fire / Terry Bisson
One Down, One to Go / Philip Jose Farmer
Sur / Ursula K. Le Guin
Introduction to England Swings SF / Judith Merril
Doing Lennon / Gregory Benford
A Tupolev Too Far / Brian W. Aldiss
Them Old Hyannis Blues / Judith Tarr
Paradise Charted / Algis Budrys
Masque of the Red Shift / Fred Saberhagen
Redemption in the Quantum Realm / Frederik Pohl
Devil You Don't Know / Dean Ing
The Eye of the World (Excerpt) / Robert Jordan
Split Light / Lisa Goldstein
Science Fiction & The Adventures of the Spherical Cow / Kathryn Cramer
The Sun Spider / Lucius Shepard
Science Fiction and 'Literature' - or, the Conscience of the King / Samuel R. Delany
Souls / Loanna Russ
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank / John Varley
The Girl Who Was Plugged In / James Tiptree
Burning Chrome / William Gibson
Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction / Joanna Russ
Identifying the Object / Gwyneth Jones
The Mountain to Mohammed / Nancy Kress
Wall, Stone, Craft / Walter Jon Williams
Boobs / Suzy McKee Charnas
To Bring in Fine Things: The Significance of Science Fiction Plots / Brian Stableford
Spider Silk / Andre Norton
A Braver Thing / Charles Sheffield
Getting Real / Susan Shwartz
True Names / Vernor Vinge
Science Fiction: A Selective Guide to Scholarship / Gary K. Wolfe

Editorial Reviews

A broad-ranging anthology; highly recommended for SF collections.” —Library Journal

“An excellent and informed introduction to the genre while also supplying fans with plenty of new pleasures. . . . [A] wise, witty and wonderful collection.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

From the Publisher

The Science Fiction Research Association sponsored two previous anthologies of contemporary sf in the 1970s and 1980s. This book, designed for classroom use, covers the range of current sf and fantasy topics, concerns, and approaches published in the last ten years. The editors offer 32 short stories and nine essays by established and new authors, including Anne McCaffrey, Greg Bear, Kate Wilhelm, Terry Bisson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Jordan, Joanna Russ, William Gibson, and Andre Norton. A broad-ranging anthology; highly recommended for sf collections.

Library Journal